{"id":31103,"date":"2025-06-08T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/heads-torsos-of-executed-1940s-war-prisoners-dug-up-in-city-park-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:06:56","slug":"heads-torsos-of-executed-1940s-war-prisoners-dug-up-in-city-park-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/heads-torsos-of-executed-1940s-war-prisoners-dug-up-in-city-park-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads, torsos of executed 1940s war prisoners dug up in city park in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Another series of unmarked graves \u2014 this one containing 14 individuals from Greece&#8217;s civil war era \u2014 have been dug up in a park in a suburb near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, local officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>As in the previous tight <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/greece-mass-grave-bodies-bullets-in-the-heads\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cluster of unmarked burial pits<\/a><\/span> excavated earlier this year in Neapolis-Sykies, the bodies belong to prisoners who were held in a nearby Byzantine fortress. The prisoners, alleged communists and sympathizers, were executed between 1946 and 1953, according to historians.<\/p>\n<p>The Yedi Kule castle, also known by its Greek name Eptapyrgio (&#8220;Seven Towers&#8221;) was a prison where communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece&#8217;s 1946-49 Civil War and immediately afterward.<\/p>\n<p>The new burial pits were uncovered on the site of a municipal park undergoing renovation, including the installation of new benches. The graves were not far beneath the surface, Haris Charismiadis, the supervising engineer of the park project, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/6fa6feee-9cf2-4358-82fd-ee2cf8702257\/thumbnail\/620x413\/860d3a67f64ed5a6ea072263b4b14f04\/ap25158657680206.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"Greece Civil War Bones \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/6fa6feee-9cf2-4358-82fd-ee2cf8702257\/thumbnail\/620x413\/860d3a67f64ed5a6ea072263b4b14f04\/ap25158657680206.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/08\/6fa6feee-9cf2-4358-82fd-ee2cf8702257\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/210ef9c8e417a62e59a132b07c6ed3c8\/ap25158657680206.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Supervising engineer Haris Charismiadis stands next to human remains believed to belong to prisoners executed during or after Greece&#8217;s 1946-49 Civil War in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Saturday, June 7, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Giannis Papanikos \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The renovation project is not currently a priority for local mayor Simos Daniilidis. &#8220;We insisted on continuing the digging for the graves,&#8221; he said. Charismiadis, who said most of the current batch of bodies were found during the past week, is certain there are more people buried nearby, including, probably, under the tarmac of streets adjacent to the park. An archaeologist is assisting in the digging.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast with the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/skeletons-found-dozens-executed-greece-civil-war\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">33 bodies found<\/a><\/span> earlier this year, which were lying side by side, the recently found bodies are jumbled, as if thrown randomly, and hastily, in a heap. Torsos and heads are separated.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/greece-mass-grave-bodies-bullets-in-the-heads\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Charismiadis said<\/a><\/span> teams had uncovered execution victims with &#8220;many bullets in the heads, the skulls.&#8221;\u00a0 Items found with the bodies \u2014 a woman&#8217;s shoe, a handbag, a ring \u2014 offer glimpses into the lives cut short.<\/p>\n<p>When Yedi Kule prisoners were executed, their families were often not notified and they didn&#8217;t get to retrieve their bodies. Some found out about the fate of their loved ones from newspapers \u2014 one family happened upon the news while on the bus they had taken to the prison to bring their relative a fresh change of clothes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/19\/2f76ba5a-752e-4f7f-914d-f2da1c1a075d\/thumbnail\/620x465\/70a0168fee2a357da9b62c6676dc38d0\/woman-shoe-download.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6#\" alt=\"woman-shoe-download.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/19\/2f76ba5a-752e-4f7f-914d-f2da1c1a075d\/thumbnail\/620x465\/70a0168fee2a357da9b62c6676dc38d0\/woman-shoe-download.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/19\/2f76ba5a-752e-4f7f-914d-f2da1c1a075d\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/6790523fd88eae596dc546b751bca2fa\/woman-shoe-download.jpg?v=8e774d26301ae5e7a27489083c0cf8b6 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">The grisly find included the discovery of footwear, including the remnants of a woman&#8217;s shoe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Sykies municipality<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Relatives of the executed have clamored for DNA tests to be done to ascertain the identity of the found bodies. Testing has not begun yet.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles between Western-backed government forces and left-wing insurgents, a brutal conflict with assassination squads, child abductions and mass displacements. CBS News journalist\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remembering-murdered-journalist-george-polk\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">George Polk<\/a><\/span>, who had depicted the right-wing Greek government as corrupt, was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/who-killed-george-polk\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">among those killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0during the war.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a 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